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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Joe decide a particular day is New Year's Day?
(a) He has counted 365 days.
(b) He feels fireworks.
(c) He just felt like having a holiday.
(d) He has had 4765 baths.

2. What does Laurette give Joe for a graduation present?
(a) A silk tie.
(b) A plush bathrobe.
(c) A pair of gold cuff links.
(d) A ring.

3. How does he name the days of the week and months?
(a) Like they name them in Canada.
(b) So he can celebrate holidays.
(c) Like the Germans name them.
(d) In French.

4. What does Joe ask?
(a) To be let out of the hospital to fend for himself.
(b) For them to reconsider.
(c) For death.
(d) For them to contact his mother.

5. What does Joe believe he must do now?
(a) Learn how to think.
(b) Figure out how much of his body is left.
(c) Figure out where he is.
(d) Try again to kill himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the visitors leave with Joe?

2. What happens the third year Joe is in the hospital?

3. What does Joe assume when he feels the nurse's hand for the fifth time?

4. What was the name of the first girl with whom Joe had sex ?

5. What does Joe reject as the nurse listens to his tapping?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Joe envision his nurses?

2. What does the little guy waiting for the train with Joe say? How does Joe answer him? What do they do then?

3. What is the response to Joe's offer and Joe's reaction?

4. What does a doctor do when Joe keeps tapping and what does Joe think is the reason why?

5. What is Joe's first response to what the nurse communicates to him?

6. What is Bonham's initial thought when asked what he wants and why do you think this is so?

7. What does Joe say every Allied nation expects?

8. Describe Bonnie Flannigan and what does she tell Joe?

9. What does Joe remember about New Year's Eve in Shale City and Los Angeles?

10. Why does Bonham consider himself a slave and what does he ask God?

(see the answer keys)

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